England Indians by which an exodus of this kind would be made necessary prior to the downfall of Philip in 1676, and as

Colonial History, iv, 380,

902.

715, 744

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Lawrence than he was found declaring, that while the aggrand izement of France was earnestly to be desired, yet " the salvation of a soul was worth more than the conquest of an empire." At his instance, La Carnon, an ambitious Franciscan priest, entered the

a missionary, and in 1616, penetrated the

field as

Mohawk country, passed to the north into the territory of the Wyandots and reached the river of Lake Huron.

In 1633,

the Society of Jesus succeeded the Franciscans with fifteen missionaries, the history of whose labors is connected with the

Ame

origin of every established town in the annals of French rica ; " not a cape was turned, nor a river entered, but a Jesuit led the way."

x

The converts of these missionaries were at first

from among the enemies of the Five Nations ; the latter regarded them as foes, and in their incursions upon the Hurons, spared

The fate of the missionary village of St. Joseph and of Fathers Daniel, Lallemand and Brebeuf, and the captivity of

them not.

Father Jogues, are but types of the toil and sacrifice which attended their labors, and of the heroism with which they met death. The fruit of their efforts was the possession by France not only of New France and Acadia, Hudson's bay and New